Nothing lasts forever, and parts for 539 engines must be getting harder to find. At any rate, the S2 is being replaced by a most interesting and uncommon locomotive.
SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Bay Railroad is in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime motive power change. As it happened with State Belt Railroad steam locomotives they were built to replace, the San Francisco Belt’s Alco S2s Nos. 23 an...
http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2019/03/04-new-power-silences-one-san-francisco-bay-alco
Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine
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